Bug#231248: mozilla-browser: file:///tmp URL fails if it can't stat
an entry in the directory
Mike Hommey
mh at glandium.org
Tue May 1 08:31:42 UTC 2007
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:48:50PM +1100, Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au> wrote:
> Package: mozilla-browser
> Version: 2:1.6-1
> Severity: normal
>
> In regular Unix permissions it is always possible to stat an entry in a
> directory. In MAC based security systems such as SE Linux this is not always
> the case.
>
> When indexing a directory mozilla should either quietly skip entries that it
> can't stat, or it could display them as unknown type.
>
> The current behaviour is that if a directory contains a single file that can't
> be stat'd then Mozilla will refuse to display a directory index.
Could you check if this still happens with iceape, which replaces
mozilla ? (I guess it still does, but i'd prefer to be sure)
Mike
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